Good order is the foundation of all things.
EDMUND BURKENothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant.
More Edmund Burke Quotes
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All that is necessary for evil to succeed is for good men to do nothing as they must if they believe they can do nothing. There is nothing worse because the council of despair is declaration of irresponsibility; it is Pilate washing his hands.
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History is a pact between the dead, the living, and the yet unborn.
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Good company, lively conversation, and the endearments of friendship fill the mind with great pleasure.
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The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
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The use of force alone is but temporary. It may subdue for a moment; but it does not remove the necessity of subduing again; and a nation is not governed, which is perpetually to be conquered.
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Manners are of more importance than laws. Manners are what vex or soothe, corrupt or purify, exalt or debase, barbarize or refine us, by a constant, steady, uniform, insensible operation, like that of the air we breathe.
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Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
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Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.
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History consists, for the greater part, of the miseries brought upon the world by pride, ambition, avarice, revenge, lust, sedition, hypocrisy, ungoverned zeal, and all the train of disorderly appetite.
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The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny.
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To make us love our country, our country ought to be lovely.
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Applaud us when we run, Console us when we fall, Cheer us when we recover.
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Rage and frenzy will pull down more in half an hour than prudence, deliberation, and foresight can build up in a hundred years.
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To complain of the age we live in, to murmur at the present possessors of power, to lament the past, to conceive extravagant hopes of the future, are the common dispositions of the greatest part of mankind.
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It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
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